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Gross Domestic Product

On Saturday the Des Moines Music Coalition hosts the eighth annual Gross Domestic Product concert, showcasing rock, pop, hip-hop and electronic music from around the state. This year GDP is changing up its format, moving to Fourth Street, where 17 bands will perform on five stages at the Vaudeville Mews, 4th Street Theater, The Lift, Des Moines Social Club and the Vaudeville Mews alley.

Headlining this year’s event is the Cedar Falls band House of Large Sizes. The three-piece group got its start in the ’80s and signed with Columbia Records for one album, “My Ass-Kicking Life,” in 1993. This week the band was also announced as part of the lineup for the DMMC’s 80/35 Music Festival. The band, comprised of the couple Dave Deibler and Barb Schlif and drummer Brent Hanson, hasn’t played a show together since 2009.

“I think this is our third cycle of shows since we stopped doing the band full-time,” Diebler said. “The longer between shows, the more difficult it gets. I think we’ve determ­ined that somewhere between three or four years it gets impossible.”

Here are the GDP performers for this year, broken up by stage:

Vaudeville Mews: Jordan Mayland & Thermal Detonators, As For You, Land of Blood & Sunshine, Handlebar, Wolves in the Attic, The Wheelers, House of Large Sizes